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After the earthquake of Guilan, a film director and his son travel to the devastated area to search for the actors from the movie the director made...
Life, and Nothing More…
Every country that enforces the death penalty needs people to kill other people. Four men are put in front of an unthinkable but simple choice....
There Is No Evil
After their father dies, a family of five children are forced to survive on their own in a Kurdish village on the border of Iran and Iraq.
A Time for Drunken Horses
A visual social examination in the form of ten conversations between a driving woman and her various pick-ups and hitchhikers.
Ten
At the age of 40, Leila has spent her entire life caring for her parents and four brothers. A family that is constantly arguing and under pressure...
Leila's Brothers
In a war ridden country a woman watches over the husband reduced to a vegetable state by a bullet in the neck, abandoned by Jihad companions and...
The Patience Stone
Story of Rumi, his friendship with Shams Tabrizi, the love he had for him and the great influence of Shams over him in his life, his poetry and his...
Intoxicated by Love
The story revolves around a blind boy named Mohammed who is released from his special school in Tehran for summer vacation. His father, shamed and...
The Color of Paradise
A semi-autobiographical account of Makhmalbaf's experience as a teenager when, as a 17-year-old, he stabbed a policeman at a protest rally. Two...
A Moment of Innocence
During the 2006 World Cup qualifying match between Iran and Bahrain, numerous young women are caught and rounded up for dressing as men so they could...
Offside
Iman, an investigating judge in the Revolutionary Court in Tehran, grapples with mistrust and paranoia as nationwide political protests intensify and...
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
An Iranian couple living in the US become trapped inside a hotel when insidious events force them to face the secrets that have come between them, in...
The Night
Kaveh Nariman is a Doctor in the medical examiner's office. One day at his work he meets a corpse which is very familiar to him.
No Date, No Signature
The story of 12-year-old Ali and his three friends. Together they work hard to survive and support their families, doing small jobs in a garage and...
Sun Children
Filmmaker Jafar Panahi and actor Behnaz Jafari travel to a tiny village after receiving a plea for help from a girl whose family has forbidden her...
3 Faces
An old villager deeply in love with his cow goes to the capital for a while. While he's there, the cow dies and now the villagers are afraid of his...
The Cow
Set in a leper colony in the north of Iran, The House is Black juxtaposes "ugliness," of which there is much in the world as stated in the opening...
The House Is Black
The story of a blind dervish named Bab'Aziz and his spirited granddaughter, Ishtar. Together they wander the desert in search of a great reunion of...
Bab'Aziz
An Iranian girl unfolds her school memories through the wrinkles and fabrics of her old uniform. She admits that she's nothing but a "female" and...
Our Uniform
Kurdish-Iranian poet Sahel has just been released from a thirty-year prison sentence in Iran. Now the one thing keeping him going is the thought of...
Rhino Season
An elderly couple go about their routine of cleaning their gabbeh, while bickering gently with each other. Magically, a young woman appears, helping...
Gabbeh
Several people try to take advantage of a little girl's innocence to hustle money her mom gave to her to buy a goldfish with.
The White Balloon
When an ostrich-rancher focuses on replacing his daughter's hearing aid, which breaks right before crucial exams, everything changes for a struggling...
The Song of Sparrows
Iranian musicians Negar and Ashkan look for band members to play at a London concert ... and the visa that allows them to leave Tehran to do so.
No One Knows About Persian Cats